Governor Walker’s executive budget bill recommends several important statewide geospatial initiatives.
Wisconsin's longstanding Land Information Program has generated $175 million in funding to support land information modernization throughout the state.
An update on the SCO/UW-Eau Claire "virtual parcel data integration" project that uses county Web map services to create a statewide view of parcels.
The State Cartographer's Office and UW-Eau Claire have launched a research project to examine the feasibility of producing an online multi-county parcel map viewer.
About "Hot Topics" A "Hot Topic" is an issue we judge to be of considerable importance to geospatial professionals in Wisconsin. Our goal is to make this space a quick place to go when you want to know the latest on these major issues. Please mail us your ideas for Hot Topics! Governor Walker’s executive budget bill, unveiled in Feb. 2013, recommends several important statewide geospatial initiatives. The bill contains the governor’s recommendations for appropriations for the 2013-15 fiscal...
In the public sector, governments administer and make policy through the creation of and maintenance of land records that are associated with a parcel of land. Thus the parcel is often the basic administrative unit of local government. In Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Land Information Program (WLIP) has been a key source of funding facilitating ever more complete digital parcel mapping at the county level. Many Wisconsin counties have completed county-wide parcel mapping and are focused on continued maintenance and updating best...
Plat books make use of the Public Land Survey System to represent land ownership patterns on a county-by-county basis. They are a convenient reference for local governments, private realty, surveying companies, and the general public. Commercial plat books for Wisconsin are generally prepared by private map publishing companies in conjunction with county governments. However, many Wisconsin counties have begun to produce and update the...
Wisconsin GIO Curtis Pulford sheds some light on recent and upcoming efforts to assemble a statewide parcel database from local government data.
